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HOUSE  OF    REPRESENTATIVES,    December  8,   1864.— Re- 
ferred  to  Committee  of  Waj^  and  Means,  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[Bytho  Chair.] 


MESSAGE  OP  THE  PRESIDENT. 

Richmond,  Va.,  Dec.  7,  1864. 
To  the  Senate  and  House  of  R  presentatives : 

I  herewith  transmit,  for  your  consideration,  a  corainunication  from 
the  Secietary  of  War,  covering  an  estimate  "of  fuudd  needed  to  meet 
a  deficiencj  in  the  appropriation  to  pay  the  officers  and  employees" 
of  tho  War  Department. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS. 


COMMUNICATION  FROM  SECRETARY  OF  WAR. 

War  Departmknt,  C.  S.  A., 
Richmond^  Dec.  6,  1864. 

To  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  : 

Sir  :  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  herewith  an  estimate,  prepared 
by  the  disbursing  clerk  of  this  department,  of  funds  needed  to  meet 
a  deficiency  in  the  appropriation  to  pay  the  officers  and  em'ployees  of 
the  department.  The  deficiency  arises  from  the  failure  of  Congress, 
at  its  last  session,  to  make  an  appropriation  to  pay  the  increased  com- 
pensation authorized  by  the  act  approved  Jun.o  1 4,  18G4. 
Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servant, 

JAMES  A.  SEDDON, 

Secretary  of  War. 


Confederate  States  of  America,  \ 

War  Department^  \ 

Richmond,  Va.,  Dec.  5,  1864.      ) 

Hon.  J.  A.  Seddon, 

Seaetary  of  War  : 

Sir  :    At  the  close  of  the  last  session.  Congress  increased  the  pay 


of  the  officers  and  employees  of  the  Executive  Departments  with- 
out making;  an  appropriation  to  meet  the  increase.  Consequently,  all 
fun<1?  onrili:K' >,  so  fa:-  vi  tVie  War  Department  and  its  huronus  are 
ci  .  oxcL'pt  to    the  amount  of  sibont   six 

tL  -trained  to    request  tliat  you  will  ask 

of  Coi  )priatiou,  to  meet  the   deiiciency,  of 

I  The  earliest  action  is  solicited  in  order  to  obtain  funds  for  payment 
at  the  close  of  the  present  month. 

Very  respectfully,  your  obedient  servar.t, 

ALFRED  CHAPMAN, 
Disbursing  Clerk,   War  Depaitment. 


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